By Carlos Miller
Miamians love Pitbull because he is one of their own. One of our own.
But apparently that doesn’t give the rapper a pass to refuse an encore song after performing in front of his hometown audience.
After Pitbull left the stage and refused to come back for an encore during his performance at the Calle Ocho street festival Sunday, his fans turned rabid; booing him, insulting him, flipping him off and throwing things towards the stage to show their disapproval.
Such is the life in Miami.
Otherwise, the Calle Ocho festival was relatively peaceful. I didn’t see any fights. I saw only one arrest. And I only saw one person passed out.
It was a mild one compared to previous years.
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10 responses so far ↓
1 Rich // Mar 16, 2009 at 7:33 AM
Vaya que desgracia que Pitbull ditched the crowd. I guess I missed out on the Shennanigans there.
2 Woe // Mar 16, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Damn, Mr. 305 couldn’t give ‘em a round two? Hahaha. Now the Miami Street Band, that’s a baaaaaaddd band there! Where do I get more info on these fellas?
3 the bulldog // Mar 16, 2009 at 11:10 AM
how typical of miami, love you one minute, hate you the next, not big into loyalty here…
4 genewitch // Mar 16, 2009 at 11:14 AM
The beginning of that video doesn’t look like something in the US. awesome! (too much culture, i think)
5 Gus Moore // Mar 16, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Cool video, Carlos. What were they throwing?
6 Carlos Miller // Mar 16, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Woe,
A little more on the Miami Street Band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyV3zbNdykM
http://carlosmiller.com/2009/03/09/miami-heat-street-band-steals-show-at-carnaval-on-the-mile/
Bulldog,
We treat our musicians the same way we treat our sports teams.
Genewitch,
Many times Miami feels like a foreign country.
Gus,
They were throwing plastic bottles, beer cans, shampoo samples that they had handed out and who knows what else.
7 Brickell Life // Mar 17, 2009 at 11:48 AM
Carlos -
Great video. Saw people pouring down 8th Street all day long from Brickell. Beauty of Calle Ocho is it’s a real street festival and you captured it perfectly. Poor Pit Bull, but that’s our town – love em one minute and hate on them the next.
8 Moonlight // Mar 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM
If you don’t like cubans why don’t you mind your own business for once? You are always sticking your nose on the cuban stuff, please man live and let live, otherwise you are kind of a masoquist.
9 Carlos Miller // Mar 18, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Moonlight,
Are you talking to me?
10 Brenda // Mar 19, 2009 at 12:25 PM
did anyone saw Erre XI??? they were the highlight of that day!! plus they looked soooo damn hot!!
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